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A review by votesforwomen
Mark of the Thief by Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.0
This is probably my least favorite Nielsen I've read so far? Which is saying something because I still really really enjoyed it AND she's still one of my favorite authors! That being said:
-Nic was a lot like Sage, with two major exceptions: He NEVER had a plan, and he had a good heart that would put literally anyone else before himself. At one point, he states that even to save himself or the city of Rome, he won't blur the lines of right and wrong. And that made me miss Sage and Kestra, our other two Nielsen protagonists who will stab you for looking at them wrong. The morally gray characters who stab people for the right reasons are my favorite part of Nielsen books, so...yeah. I missed that here.
-Aurelia just wasn't a terribly interesting character?
-The other characters were pretty much all meh.
-General Radulf is, in essence, the exact same villain as The Traitor's Game's Lord Endrick. ALTHOUGH the way this book ended has given me a terrifying theory for TTG Book 3 and while I don't want it to happen...oh, man. DO IT, NIELSEN. DO IT.
-The setting was fantastic!
-The plot moved really really really slowly and I was bored at a couple of moments, but I think the next book will move more quickly so I am looking forward to that.
Overall 3.5 stars! My favorite thing about Nielsen's books is how perfectly clean they are, despite their stabbiness. This is ancient Rome so the "gods" are real here, for anyone who may wish to avoid that, but otherwise...yeah, no content concerns at all!
-Nic was a lot like Sage, with two major exceptions: He NEVER had a plan, and he had a good heart that would put literally anyone else before himself. At one point, he states that even to save himself or the city of Rome, he won't blur the lines of right and wrong. And that made me miss Sage and Kestra, our other two Nielsen protagonists who will stab you for looking at them wrong. The morally gray characters who stab people for the right reasons are my favorite part of Nielsen books, so...yeah. I missed that here.
-Aurelia just wasn't a terribly interesting character?
-The other characters were pretty much all meh.
-General Radulf is, in essence, the exact same villain as The Traitor's Game's Lord Endrick. ALTHOUGH the way this book ended has given me a terrifying theory for TTG Book 3 and while I don't want it to happen...oh, man. DO IT, NIELSEN. DO IT.
-The setting was fantastic!
-The plot moved really really really slowly and I was bored at a couple of moments, but I think the next book will move more quickly so I am looking forward to that.
Overall 3.5 stars! My favorite thing about Nielsen's books is how perfectly clean they are, despite their stabbiness. This is ancient Rome so the "gods" are real here, for anyone who may wish to avoid that, but otherwise...yeah, no content concerns at all!